The Boulder Innovation Center (BIC), one of America's premier entrepreneurial support organizations, will expand and share its CU-Boulder-based research commercialization program with the Colorado School of Mines Office of Technology Transfer in Golden.

ETH-Zurich physicists have developed a new kind of laser that shatters the boundaries of possibility: it is by far the smallest electrically pumped laser in the world and one day could revolutionize chip technology.

The California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA and the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (iCeMS) at Japan's Kyoto University have signed a memorandum of understanding to collaborate on international research efforts and academic exchanges.

A team of scientists led by the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has successfully performed a quantum walk in a quantum system with up to 23 steps. \

The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will be installed at the Spallation Neutron Source in Oakridge National Laboratory.

The State Corporation of Nanotechnologies (RUSNANO) has been appointed the authorized organization representing the Russian Federation and executing the agreement with Israel for bilateral cooperation in industrial scientific-research and design-experimental work.

Nanowerk, the leading information provider for all areas of nanotechnologies, today added to its nanotechnology information portal a new free job posting service. The new application, called nanoJOBS, is available immediately on the Nanowerk website.

This is the first volume to engage scholarly perspectives on environmental regulation in light of the challenges posed by nanotechnology. Contributors focus on the overarching lessons of decades of regulatory response, while posing a fundamental question: How can government regulatory systems satisfy the desire for scientific innovation while also taking into account the direct and indirect effects of 21st century emerging technologies, particularly in the face of scientific uncertainties?

A conference from October 3-8, 2010 in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (ESF-EMBO Symposium: Emergent Properties of the Cytoskeleton: Molecules to Cells), will address the best and the newest developments in this research area.

Electro-mechanical sensors tell the airbag in your car to inflate and rotate your iPhone screen to match your position on the couch. Now a research group of Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Engineering is making the technology even more useful.